Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 87 81
Rank change year-on-year -13 -6 -27
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 2,105 1,675 2,178
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.78% 3.38% 2.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.44% 3.79% 3.57%
Number of salaries quoted 1,407 803 1,282
10th Percentile £45,000 £51,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £58,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +11.54% -13.33%
75th Percentile £91,375 £91,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £117,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £68,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -1.46% +9.60% -7.41%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 86,399 44,171 61,013
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.12% 89.11% 81.89%
Number of salaries quoted 59,417 24,443 33,150
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £58,700
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -6.30% -2.17%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 3 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 3 October 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -18 1,813 £75,000 +0.67% 2,262
UK excluding London -23 1,155 £67,500 -1.46% 1,672
Work from Home -21 852 £69,310 -0.99% 1,618
London -15 792 £85,000 +3.03% 1,230
North of England -49 369 £75,000 +7.14% 392
South East +48 313 £65,000 -7.14% 257
North West -63 200 £77,250 +10.36% 199
South West -6 147 £67,500 +12.50% 144
Midlands -58 108 £75,000 +7.14% 169
North East +15 92 £67,153 +54.82% 73
West Midlands -40 78 £80,000 +14.29% 100
Yorkshire -4 77 £69,310 -0.99% 125
Northern Ireland -25 72 £60,000 +33.33% 148
Wales -18 69 £61,000 +17.31% 129
East of England -52 42 £63,800 +0.08% 100
Scotland -49 35 £67,500 -12.90% 346
East Midlands -65 30 £65,000 -3.70% 69
Isle of Man - 3 £35,000 -

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 42 (2.00%) Confluence
2 27 (1.28%) Apache Spark
3 20 (0.95%) Apache
4 19 (0.90%) CMS
5 14 (0.67%) Camunda
6 11 (0.52%) IIS
7 10 (0.48%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 10 (0.48%) OpenStack
8 9 (0.43%) nginx
8 9 (0.43%) WordPress
9 8 (0.38%) WebLogic
10 7 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
10 7 (0.33%) Drupal
10 7 (0.33%) JBoss
10 7 (0.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 4 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.14%) DNN
12 3 (0.14%) Kentico
12 3 (0.14%) Sitefinity
12 3 (0.14%) Umbraco
Applications
1 11 (0.52%) MS Visio
2 10 (0.48%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.095%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.095%) PlantUML
5 1 (0.048%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
1 8 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
2 5 (0.24%) Oracle Retail
3 4 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.048%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.048%) Eikon
5 1 (0.048%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.048%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 1,087 (51.64%) AWS
2 903 (42.90%) Azure
3 329 (15.63%) GCP
4 287 (13.63%) GitHub
5 266 (12.64%) Serverless
6 200 (9.50%) SaaS
7 186 (8.84%) Azure DevOps
8 143 (6.79%) AWS Lambda
9 129 (6.13%) Amazon EKS
9 129 (6.13%) AWS CloudFormation
10 119 (5.65%) Amazon S3
11 106 (5.04%) GitHub Copilot
12 96 (4.56%) Azure Service Bus
13 87 (4.13%) Amazon ECS
14 85 (4.04%) GitHub Actions
15 67 (3.18%) Amazon SQS
16 62 (2.95%) Azure AKS
17 58 (2.76%) Amazon EC2
18 52 (2.47%) Azure Monitor
19 50 (2.38%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 24 (1.14%) Network Security
2 15 (0.71%) Broadband
2 15 (0.71%) DMARC
2 15 (0.71%) VPN
3 13 (0.62%) DNS
4 12 (0.57%) MQTT
5 10 (0.48%) AMQP
6 9 (0.43%) HTTP
7 8 (0.38%) Firewall
7 8 (0.38%) TCP/IP
8 7 (0.33%) Internet
9 6 (0.29%) Hyperconnected
10 5 (0.24%) RFID
11 3 (0.14%) BGP
11 3 (0.14%) LTE
11 3 (0.14%) NAS
11 3 (0.14%) SAN
11 3 (0.14%) SSL
12 2 (0.095%) DHCP
12 2 (0.095%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 325 (15.44%) MongoDB
2 249 (11.83%) PostgreSQL
3 212 (10.07%) NoSQL
4 166 (7.89%) Azure SQL Database
5 150 (7.13%) Elasticsearch
6 120 (5.70%) MySQL
7 105 (4.99%) SQL Server
8 91 (4.32%) Relational Database
9 74 (3.52%) Redis
10 57 (2.71%) DynamoDB
11 48 (2.28%) Amazon RDS
12 28 (1.33%) Big Data
13 22 (1.05%) Pinecone
14 21 (1.00%) Data Lake
15 15 (0.71%) Chroma
16 14 (0.67%) RDBMS
17 12 (0.57%) DTS
18 10 (0.48%) Db2
18 10 (0.48%) Metadata
19 9 (0.43%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 300 (14.25%) Git
2 204 (9.69%) GitLab
3 168 (7.98%) Jenkins
4 74 (3.52%) TeamCity
5 69 (3.28%) JUnit
6 56 (2.66%) JIRA
7 55 (2.61%) Cucumber
8 41 (1.95%) Mockito
9 40 (1.90%) Cypress.io
10 37 (1.76%) Maven
11 31 (1.47%) Claude Code
12 30 (1.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 23 (1.09%) Selenium
14 17 (0.81%) Spock
15 16 (0.76%) REST Assured
16 15 (0.71%) JMeter
16 15 (0.71%) Postman
17 13 (0.62%) Vite
18 11 (0.52%) SonarQube
19 9 (0.43%) Bitbucket
General
1 539 (25.61%) Finance
2 439 (20.86%) Social Skills
3 240 (11.40%) Public Sector
4 209 (9.93%) Banking
5 175 (8.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 156 (7.41%) Law
7 153 (7.27%) Analytical Skills
8 141 (6.70%) Retail
9 94 (4.47%) Financial Institution
10 87 (4.13%) Legal
11 70 (3.33%) Back Office
12 60 (2.85%) Marketing
13 45 (2.14%) Aerospace
14 38 (1.81%) Influencing Skills
15 31 (1.47%) Games
16 28 (1.33%) Legal Technology
17 18 (0.86%) Front Office
18 15 (0.71%) Advertising
19 11 (0.52%) Manufacturing
19 11 (0.52%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 754 (35.82%) Developer
2 528 (25.08%) Senior
3 380 (18.05%) Software Engineer
4 361 (17.15%) Lead
5 319 (15.15%) Architect
6 204 (9.69%) Senior Developer
7 192 (9.12%) .NET Developer
8 165 (7.84%) Full-Stack Developer
8 165 (7.84%) Java Developer
9 142 (6.75%) Java Engineer
10 132 (6.27%) Senior Software Engineer
11 126 (5.99%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 109 (5.18%) Solutions Architect
13 105 (4.99%) Principal Engineer
14 83 (3.94%) Lead Software Engineer
15 77 (3.66%) DevOps Engineer
16 70 (3.33%) Software Developer
17 66 (3.14%) Lead Developer
18 63 (2.99%) Technical Leader
19 62 (2.95%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 531 (25.23%) .NET
2 457 (21.71%) React
3 425 (20.19%) Node.js
4 415 (19.71%) Terraform
5 407 (19.33%) Spring
6 371 (17.62%) Spring Boot
7 317 (15.06%) RESTful
8 298 (14.16%) Kafka
9 290 (13.78%) REST
10 238 (11.31%) ASP.NET
11 224 (10.64%) AngularJS
12 217 (10.31%) .NET Core
13 198 (9.41%) Vue
14 193 (9.17%) ASP.NET Core
15 123 (5.84%) Blazor
16 102 (4.85%) ASP.NET Web API
17 88 (4.18%) HTML
18 87 (4.13%) .NET Framework
19 84 (3.99%) CSS
20 81 (3.85%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 702 (33.35%) Cloud Native
2 392 (18.62%) Distributed Systems
3 172 (8.17%) Product Ownership
4 128 (6.08%) Enterprise Software
5 102 (4.85%) Legacy Systems
6 84 (3.99%) Onboarding
7 65 (3.09%) AI Agents
7 65 (3.09%) Public Cloud
8 52 (2.47%) Virtual Team
9 47 (2.23%) e-Learning
10 46 (2.19%) Self-Motivation
11 44 (2.09%) Greenfield Project
12 27 (1.28%) Management Information System
13 25 (1.19%) Distributed Architecture
14 21 (1.00%) Legacy Applications
14 21 (1.00%) Mainframe
15 20 (0.95%) Private Cloud
16 19 (0.90%) Algorithms
16 19 (0.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 19 (0.90%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 150 (7.13%) Linux
2 50 (2.38%) Windows
3 32 (1.52%) CentOS
3 32 (1.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 22 (1.05%) Unix
5 10 (0.48%) Apple iOS
6 9 (0.43%) Windows Server
7 8 (0.38%) Android
8 7 (0.33%) AIX
8 7 (0.33%) Debian
8 7 (0.33%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.19%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,172 (55.68%) CI/CD
2 1,024 (48.65%) Agile
3 767 (36.44%) Software Engineering
4 750 (35.63%) DevOps
5 569 (27.03%) Mentoring
6 563 (26.75%) Full-Stack Development
7 501 (23.80%) Event-Driven
8 475 (22.57%) AI
9 454 (21.57%) Test Automation
10 444 (21.09%) Infrastructure as Code
11 421 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
12 415 (19.71%) Containerisation
13 385 (18.29%) Problem-Solving
14 338 (16.06%) Technical Leadership
15 311 (14.77%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 295 (14.01%) Scrum
17 270 (12.83%) Observability
18 263 (12.49%) Architectural Patterns
19 238 (11.31%) TDD
20 232 (11.02%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 788 (37.43%) Java
2 571 (27.13%) C#
3 506 (24.04%) SQL
4 450 (21.38%) JavaScript
5 417 (19.81%) Python
6 409 (19.43%) TypeScript
7 81 (3.85%) Go
8 57 (2.71%) Ruby
9 43 (2.04%) C++
10 36 (1.71%) Bash
11 34 (1.62%) PHP
12 28 (1.33%) Bicep
13 26 (1.24%) Kotlin
14 25 (1.19%) PowerShell
15 21 (1.00%) Rust
16 16 (0.76%) PL/SQL
17 12 (0.57%) Groovy
17 12 (0.57%) Scala
17 12 (0.57%) Shell Script
18 10 (0.48%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 352 (16.72%) Security Cleared
2 245 (11.64%) SC Cleared
3 167 (7.93%) Degree
4 105 (4.99%) DV Cleared
5 88 (4.18%) AWS Certification
6 85 (4.04%) Computer Science Degree
7 61 (2.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 35 (1.66%) CISSP
9 34 (1.62%) Azure Certification
10 22 (1.05%) CISM
11 18 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
12 17 (0.81%) TOGAF Certification
13 15 (0.71%) Master's Degree
14 10 (0.48%) MBA
15 8 (0.38%) Cisco Certification
15 8 (0.38%) DBS Check
16 6 (0.29%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 6 (0.29%) CCSP
16 6 (0.29%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 5 (0.24%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 223 (10.59%) QA
2 101 (4.80%) Accessibility
3 39 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 39 (1.85%) WCAG
4 29 (1.38%) GDPR
5 24 (1.14%) NIST
6 19 (0.90%) Data Quality
7 17 (0.81%) NCSC
8 14 (0.67%) PCI DSS
9 12 (0.57%) SOC 2
10 9 (0.43%) ISO 20022
11 8 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
11 8 (0.38%) GRC
11 8 (0.38%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 6 (0.29%) Government Security Classifications
13 5 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
13 5 (0.24%) PSD2
13 5 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 4 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 3 (0.14%) IFRS
System Software
1 608 (28.88%) Docker
2 41 (1.95%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.48%) NDS
4 7 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.19%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.14%) KVM
8 2 (0.095%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.048%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.048%) Firmware
9 1 (0.048%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 683 (32.45%) Kubernetes
2 122 (5.80%) Grafana
3 98 (4.66%) Ansible
4 54 (2.57%) Prometheus
5 28 (1.33%) Argo
6 27 (1.28%) Single Sign-On
7 21 (1.00%) Puppet
8 14 (0.67%) Kibana
9 11 (0.52%) Cilium
10 6 (0.29%) Progress Chef
11 5 (0.24%) Podman
12 4 (0.19%) HP Fortify
13 3 (0.14%) Kubeflow
13 3 (0.14%) Rancher
14 2 (0.095%) Microsoft Intune
15 1 (0.048%) Cisco CUCM
15 1 (0.048%) Consul
15 1 (0.048%) Control-M
15 1 (0.048%) Fluentd
15 1 (0.048%) logstash
Vendors
1 342 (16.25%) Microsoft
2 100 (4.75%) Google
3 69 (3.28%) Oracle
4 56 (2.66%) Splunk
5 52 (2.47%) OpenAI
6 32 (1.52%) Dynatrace
7 28 (1.33%) Okta
8 26 (1.24%) ForgeRock
9 24 (1.14%) Databricks
10 19 (0.90%) Mistral
11 18 (0.86%) OneLogin
12 17 (0.81%) IBM
13 16 (0.76%) SAP
14 15 (0.71%) AppDynamics
14 15 (0.71%) SendGrid
15 14 (0.67%) Adobe
15 14 (0.67%) OpenText
16 13 (0.62%) CyberArk
17 12 (0.57%) Salesforce
18 10 (0.48%) NetIQ